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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Why would you get a big external hard drive that requieres a power source? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by ImHidingtheRealMe@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Apart from having more storage capacity, why not just get a complete portable one that uses 5V and doesn’t requires you to power it with a plug? What advances does a big 12V external hard drive have against a smaller fully portable 5V HDD?

I have a Seagate One Touch 5TB and it’s great but I want another one probably with more storage but from what I’ve seen only Seagate’s Expansion Desktop drives offer more storage than 5TB.

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[–] ACrossingTroll@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well if you are fan of random disconnects..

[–] metalwolf112002@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Some people go to Vagas to gamble. Some stay at home and gamble there instead.